Pick just about any major out-of-control issue, and you can find politicians and other government figures coming up with all sorts of non-solutions to the problem that serve to do little more than placate the masses into believing that something is being done.
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Hollywood suggests that spies and terrorists sit around and photograph things. The real intelligence services know better, but the reality is that to Joe proletariat, hassling photographers who are taking pictures of landmarks presents the illusion that the government actually is in control of the situation, when the reality is that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Just somebody out there in the tubes o' the Internets.
